Sentences with phrase «people in every culture known»

People in every culture known to us have had experiences that seem overwhelmingly to them to be experiences of the Sacred.

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Meddling in the wrong ways or too often can either produce a culture where people don't like to take actions because they know you'll eventually just step in anyways, or — equally badly — the company gets unfocused from the constant interventions.

By the time Powell was elected CEO of General Mills in 2007, he really knew the company — the organization, its people, products, customers and culture.

«We know people come to Monaco for the sea and the sun, but we want them also to know that we are committed to culture and, in particular, to art,» Paul Masseron, the principality's minister of the interior, told The New York Times.

As a person who implements software, it helps me in advance to know the culture and personalities of the people I'll be intimately working with so I know whether or not to include a bottle — or three — of Jack Daniels in my budget.

When culture is something more than just nice words, the spirit infuses everyone in the company so that, as leader, you know whether a new person, idea, customer or change is right for your culture.

At the heart of Peter's leadership expertise is his success in leading teams and ensuring that a «people first» culture thrives at Purdys Chocolatier, while customers know Purdys for the highest quality chocolate and the highest quality service.

While working in an industry not known for positive work cultures (call centers), Paul and his brothers focused on creating an environment in which people loved what they did every day, and lived by a set of core values that everyone respected.

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«You want to engender an environment in which people will be open, and not feel that they are being intolerable and shut up, so they created a culture in which everyone knows how to be constructive.

After having been in a couple relationships with people whose second (or third) language is English, and knowing what I do now, I have a lot of empathy for what people are going through as they adjust to new words, new cultures, and new everything.

At least in my own experience, as I have gotten to know people different from me, it's given me an appreciation and / or understanding for what they go through, or their culture, perspective, etc..

However, in meeting and dealing with people from all over the world, I also know that I must RESPECT their culture.

when you live in America, knowing that the culture here is very superficial and most things are based on looks (and not just here but other countries as well) you can't be surprised that people will find a fully bearded woman strange.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

In the graciousness of the book (something often lacking when people engage Emergent, no names but...), in its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reaIn the graciousness of the book (something often lacking when people engage Emergent, no names but...), in its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reain its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reain its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reain love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reain its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reain the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to read.

No, Mel Gibson and his dad are right about Jewish people, they have done everything in the last 300 years to corrupt White Christian Western culture and countries and are at the point where they can make Europeans extinct through there lies and deceit of multi-culturalism and multiracialism, every single even in the past 300 years has been manipulated by Jews in order to take control of the world, and they white christians as being the main obstacle to obtaining that goal.

Tracey Rowland, in Catholic World Report's «round table» discussion (not reported in its print edition) argues that the Pope is affirming that «When cultures no longer serve the deepest needs of human nature and actually narrow the spiritual horizons of people, people don't know who they are and feel depressed.

John Senior, in The Restoration of Christian Culture, explains the phrase this way — «the lover is the only one who really sees the truth about a person... we can only love what we know because we have first touched, tasted, smelled, heard and seen.»

This happens because delusional beliefs are tied to a person's culture and what they know, and we live in a religious society, he explained.

No doubt there have been and are many people who have come to America simply to transplant their existing culture onto new soil — in fact, you can make the argument that that was how America was founded in the first place.

The sum of the treasures of knowledge and culture has increased to such a degree that the individual in the time available in one lifetime can no longer have any direct contact with the whole of the benefits of civilization available nowadays and which are in fact known and enjoyed by one person or another.

Furthermore, this culture war has presented people like Justin, and people like Cindy — a mom who contacted Justin in a panic after learning her son was gay, knowing that her church was the last place she could turn if she wanted her son to feel loved and supported — with a dangerous false dichotomy: It's gays vs. Christians.

Barack knows what it means to be a black man to be living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people.

As they ask questions they are taking in the responses and reconciling them with what they know to be true, often times helping people to find a true north in a culture full of relatives, toxicity and low standards.

Central and eastern Europe didn't break free of the shackles of totalitarianism without trying, failing, and then trying again: It took a critical mass of people, determined to «live in the truth» no matter how difficult, to implode the communist culture of the lie and give a new birth of freedom to the lands Stalin claimed as his prize for helping beat Hitler.

Additionally, it has been well documented that a monotheistic conception of ultimate reality is indigenous to almost all of traditional African culture, and that it is highly probable that traditional African theism, like Judeo - Christian and Islamic theism, has its historical genesis in the monotheism of a black pharaoh of ancient Egypt — Iknaton ---- who was the first person known to have popularized the religious conviction that there is one, and only one, god.

Sam, You, of all the people I know, show how to be Jesus in and through the customs and holidays of our culture and neighborhood.

As musical icon Prince joins a growing list of well known people who have died in 2016, David Robertson asks whether our secular culture is ready to face its own mortality

As musical icon Prince joins a growing list of well known people who have died in 2016, David Robertson asks whether our secular culture is ready to face... More

In hindsight we see that if the gospel had not been preached in terms of Hellenistic culture, it would not have won the minds and hearts of most of the people in the then - known worlIn hindsight we see that if the gospel had not been preached in terms of Hellenistic culture, it would not have won the minds and hearts of most of the people in the then - known worlin terms of Hellenistic culture, it would not have won the minds and hearts of most of the people in the then - known worlin the then - known world.

In Europe, for example, religious people can no longer ignore the existence of the millions of foreigners with different cultures who are now living there.

He posits, for example, that Jesus in his omniscience knew that there were smaller seeds than the mustard seed, but nevertheless used «this facet of the culture of the people to whom he was speaking as a vehicle for conveying the cargo of revelational truth.

Advent allows me to learn the creation story of the Zuni people, to know what it means to see Christ in a culture that has been dismissed by America in every way.

In those cultures where polygamy was common it was not always the consensual agreement many would like to believe and if you know people who grew up in those households you can here some serious stories of strifIn those cultures where polygamy was common it was not always the consensual agreement many would like to believe and if you know people who grew up in those households you can here some serious stories of strifin those households you can here some serious stories of strife.

I know some people are going to go apoplectic about «moral equivalency», but my point is to show that we are not always objective in evaluating leaders in other cultures, places and times.

Whereas, earlier, it had been believed that the Aryans found only peoples of relatively undeveloped culture, now it is known that at least some of these early Indians had developed the arts to a high degree, that they even had a kind of hieroglyphic writing, not yet deciphered, and probably an equally well developed religion which, suppressed for a time, gradually reasserted itself and greatly modified Vedic religion, gradually transforming it into the Hinduism as practiced in India today.

There is much that is not known concerning them, but it is known that long, long before they arrived in India they were part of a great migratory movement of people, sometimes identified incorrectly as a race, probably better as a people of a common culture.

In fact, in my experience, I've found that the folks most passionate about waging a culture war against homosexuality are often folks who don't know a lot of gay peoplIn fact, in my experience, I've found that the folks most passionate about waging a culture war against homosexuality are often folks who don't know a lot of gay peoplin my experience, I've found that the folks most passionate about waging a culture war against homosexuality are often folks who don't know a lot of gay people.

Similar and better - known movements have emerged among people in Islamic cultures.

But they risk everything — their national character and their capacity to succor the downtrodden — by permitting uncontrolled mass migration of peoples who know nothing of their culture, in such huge numbers and at such speed that they can not possibly be assimilated and integrated into this or any future generation.

I know this sort of thing seems to happen in Scripture (the flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, etc), but I just struggle with what this says about God's ability to work with any sort of person, society, or culture....

But, no matter what the reason, there is a tension that exists in today's culture: People want salvation, but not God.

It is my conviction that if a theologian doesn't know the culture and times well enough to speak and write in ways that people understand, then the theologian doesn't know the first thing about theology.

«That said, if the churches do not take the opportunity now to «advocate» and «teach» why same - sex marriage is wrong for everyone (i.e., harmful to children, to the couple, and undermining of a culture of marriage), religious people should not expect to find a lot of sympathy for their right to exercise their religious freedom to dissent from same - sex marriage,» Esbeck told CT. «In other words, church leaders no longer enjoy the luxury of not teaching biblical marriage, as much as large numbers of the laity don't want to hear it.

One must «speak of liberty, as the youth of today has placed it in his culture, but liberty must always be in relation to truth, as it is truth that produces liberty... [and] one can not speak of God to young people without knowing the culture of today's young people, which is scientific.

«Since the Bible depicts other peoples» cultures, and we know from African culture that not everything in culture is liberating, we come to the Bible with the same cautious approach we have to culture... Any interpretation of the Bible is unacceptable if it does harm to women, the vulnerable and the voiceless.»

Every day they reminded us to forget everything we thought we knew about church and christianity, and think about how to present scripture without these biases, so that the church and christianity could find its own path in new cultures and peoples.

god is not real, the GLOBAL flood never happened, and jesus was just a delusional schizophrenic in a long line of delusional schizophrenics who left him a legacy of delusions to base his off of... The legacy is known today as jewish mysticism, jesus was after all a jew and he grew up like every other jew did — by learning his culture and history of his people — they keep records, RELIGIOUSLY!

Paul did not make the presumption that a group of people in Athens sitting around the marketplace of ideas knew anything about his life, culture, world or religion.